Hope is more than feeling. Hope is more than experience. Hope is more than foresight. Hope is a command. Obeying it means life, survival, endurance, standing up to life until death is swallowed up in victory.
-Juergen Moltmann

So God's great promise in the last book of the Bible, the book of Revelation, is: `Behold, I make all things new' (21.5).